The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1887-04-28

sented to Archbishop Corrigan on the Goth,
disappearing Of the action of Rev. DR..
McGlynn in the Henry George revolution
ary movement, and declaring that they
have no sympathy with the communistic
doctrines promulgated by George and en-
dorsed by McGlynn.
Four men who left New York in little
catboat for a sail in the bay on the 18th are
supposed to have been drowned. The boat
was picked up by tug the next day, float
ing bottom upward, with the halyards cut.
The men were w. J. Mason, Frank Bernard,
W. e. johnson and Richard Westerman, Of
Cumminspaw, N. j. All had families.
An investigation Of the books Of Water
Register Michael d. Murphy, of .Hoboken,
N. j., who disappeared several days ago,
shows deficit of between $50, 600 and 500,
600.
Prominent New York iron men are au-
thority for the statement that the Atchison,
Topeka & Santa Fe railroad is buying
81, ,000, 900 worth Of steel rails in England.
About three hundred New York store
keepers, clerks and others were arrested
on the 21st by the police for sweeping dust
into the street in defiance of the mandate
Of Mayor Hewitt. In the police courts the
accused were either fined or sharply repri-
manded by the magistrates.
D.
more & Ohio railroad near Everson, Pa, on
the 21st two ladies, Mrs. Geltemy and Mrs.
Anderson, were struck by shifting engine
and terribly mangled. The former died in
few hours and Mrs Anderson's condition
is critical
A freight train on the Pittsburgh, Nc
Keesport Il Youghiogheny railroad ran
into landslide near Fuller Station, Pa, on
the 2lst. The engine and eight cars were
overturned. The fireman and front brake
man were buried under the wreck and in
stantly killed.
At meeting of the tissue paper and
toilet paper makers of the United States,
held in New York City on the 21st, it was
unanimously decided to advance prices
from ten to fifteen per cent.
sold Spot,n the horse which General
Fitzpatrick rode in his famous expeditions
during the war, died at Deckertown, N. j.,
few days ago. He was thirty-three years
old.
W. D. Readers tinware manufacturing
establishment at Franklin, Pa, the largest
plant of the kind in Western Pennsylvania,
was destroyed by fire on the 21st. Loss
e35, 600; insurance s25, 900.
At Moravia, N. Y. on the 21st, Frank
Close fell upon q circular saw and his head
and body were split in two the entire
length. :
In collision on the Vermont Central
railroad on the 21st near Milton, VT, thirty
freight cars were thrown down an embank-
ment and badly broken up.
The business failures during the seven
days ended April % number for the United
States III and for Canada %, against total
of 175 the previous week and 1874 for the
corresponding week of last year.
The great telegraph fight between the
Western Union and United Lines companies
was begun in the United States court at
Philadelphia on the 22d. Messrs. Read and
Petit, John G.. johnson and ex-Attorney
General Cassidy represent the Western
Union and Robert g. Ingersoll, ex-senator
Conkling and Wayne McVeagh the United
Lines.
Frank M. Scott, the bookkeeper Of Web
ster & Co, Of New York, who embezzled
S101, ,845, received sentence Of six years
imprisonment on the I'D.
A statement was filed in the county
clerks office at New York few days ago,
showing that the directors OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company by two-thirds
vote had increased its capital S, zoe, ,0O0,
making total capital of $S1, 200, 900.
Andrew Carnegie, the millionaire iron
manufacturer, was married on the I'D to
Miss Whitfield, daughter Of the late John
W. Whitfield, at the BRIDES residence in
New York City,
Captain William Writ Bush, Of the Twen-
ty-eighth New York Volunteers, and said
to have been the first volunteer to enlist in
the late civil war, died at Lockport, N. Y,
q few days ago. He had gold badge pre-
sented to him by soldiers and sailors repre-
senting the different States.
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